Okay once again I'm breaking my own one-week time-off from OSNews due to, you know, taking a break and being too busy with other things, but this one is big - very big. Also, only the second time in OSNews history we've used the 'breaking'-tag. Google has just announced it is going to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (more here). While providing Google with a dedicated mobile phone business, it also gives Google ownership of one of the most valuable mobile technology patent portfolios in existence. Update:Responses from the Android ecosystem are positive. HTC: "We welcome the news of today's acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem." Sony Ericsson & LG: "We welcome Google's commitment to defending Android and its partners."

No I haven't. As shoehorning what little *nix code exists for the Xbox 360 onto the box requires hardware mods I am loathe to do, no thank you. It works fine for what I want it to do. Also, Nvidia only provided the video processing and glue logic for the original Xbox; Intel provided the system architecture and CPU. The Xbox 360 uses ATI graphics, Samsung memory and logic, and IBM processors. Know what you are talking about (and read my post more carefully, especially the "360" part) before making a fool of yourself trying to look smart.

More to the point, Does Dell manufacture "every last screw" of their desktops and laptops? Of course not! Does HP fab their own motherboards? Nope, they all outsource the hardware bits. BUT, each company offers full support for their branded hardware, down to "the last screw" in most cases. This holds true for Microsoft with the Xbox 360, and Sony with its Playstations (including the new PSP Phone they have out there, with their hardware and a heavily modified Android OS).

A little nitpick: SiS provided at least most of the glue via their "southbridge" and memory controller is presumably by ATI.

(yup, SiS, so they are still relatively successful despite appearing to virtually disappear some time ago; and too bad, their stuff from K7-era onward was very decent; even some Intel-branded motherboards were based on SiS chipsets!)

Interesting. I was sure Samsung was the memory controller manufacturer. I was going from memory though (no pun intended). Thanks for the correction!

Edit: We're both sort of wrong:

The console features 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 700 MHz with an effective transmission rate of 1.4 GHz on a 128-bit bus. The memory is shared by the CPU and the GPU via the unified memory architecture. This memory is produced by either Samsung or Qimonda.